Love to see it.

The student as the petty sovereign—this is what initiated this iteration of intensification around content control wrt race and gender at Texas A&M and what happened at IU. This is the new flow of institutional authority. The second image is a quote from Toscano’s Late Fascism

"Our hope is that this forum will point in an opposite direction...toward an exploration...of fantasy and its libidinal pleasure that is at once coincident with, supplemental to, and athwart...preoccupations with material and political causality." -- me Whole Theweleit forum is open access

The Epstein files reveal/exposure seem to function like a fetish in the Freudian sense, which is to say they avow and disavow and the big reveal will be a let down because we already know

"Our hope is that this forum will point in an opposite direction...toward an exploration...of fantasy and its libidinal pleasure that is at once coincident with, supplemental to, and athwart...preoccupations with material and political causality." -- me Whole Theweleit forum is open access

I don't think it's quite right to see Cornell, UVa etc etc in terms of capitulation to the Trump regime. Rather, they are consolidating the university they have been creating for decades, one in which faculty and students are just unfortunate necessary components to the machine

Great essay from Pete Coviello on inane Mamdani-Bowdoin-Africana Studies story in the Times and the disingenuous discourses that engulf us. "An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003."

A few days left - maybe you want one of our History of the Present special issues - on the German Peasants' War, or Psychoanalysis and History, or Reproductive Racial Capitalism, or Pandemic Histories? Or get Situation Critical: Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies?

At a time when a journal committed to history as a form of critique is more necessary than ever, History of the Present encourages critical examination of both history’s influence on politics and the politics of history as a discipline. Issue 15:2 is now available: buff.ly/zGvYNDW

can't believe people are screenshotting posts from BHL - it's ok to ignore him, seriously

Bad news about humanities majors: JD Vance - Philosophy Ron DeSantis - History Stephen Miller - Philosophy

Very fun/exciting to be in a bar in Brooklyn when Mamdani won and everyone cheered

You should pre-order since this will surely be terrific like all the other issues. And you can read me going on about “positive incest,” MILF Manor, hot toddler, and incest porn among other family romances www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/wer...

"The potential for fascism can no more be consigned to the completed historical past than we can justify exempting ourselves from its psychical residues. " - Tim Dean, "It's the Libidinal Economy, Stupid" read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...

"The potential for fascism can no more be consigned to the completed historical past than we can justify exempting ourselves from its psychical residues. " - Tim Dean, "It's the Libidinal Economy, Stupid" read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...

Reposting for those who may have missed it - the Theweleit forum is open access

New issue! Gramsci in France(Anthony Crezegut), postcolonial sovereignty(Swati Birla), slavery and contract(Jason Alhenius), neoliberal revolution(Wendy Brown), and a forum on Klaus Theweleit and the present(me, Tim Dean, Hannah Zeavin, Eli Payne, AO Scott) read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...

New issue! Gramsci in France(Anthony Crezegut), postcolonial sovereignty(Swati Birla), slavery and contract(Jason Alhenius), neoliberal revolution(Wendy Brown), and a forum on Klaus Theweleit and the present(me, Tim Dean, Hannah Zeavin, Eli Payne, AO Scott) read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...

Trying to decide if I should start my book with a reading of the great No Trend song “Family Style” or a reading of the not so great 1984 incest porn miniseries “Taboo American Style”

This is just the latest in a series of awful actions by the BOG - there is not even a pretense to academic freedom in the state anymore and worrying that this is making professors a target of political and ideological actions is nice but at least 5 years late

I kinda don’t get why so many people are so into that Harper’s porn essay

This is so good everyone should read it and send to their less aware colleagues, deans, and if you have one “College of AI, Cybersecurty, and Computing”

this is both horrible and so utterly stupid...so glad my kids are no longer subject to this parody of a school system

NBA Season started yesterday and I was contemplating purchasing the league pass....I'm not sure if this is a reasonable price for one season....

Cuomo is such a piece of shit

It’s telling that almost all mainstream politicians find nothing but fault with universities and find police forces faultless.

LMS like Canvas suck, but has anyone tracked how much money is spent by universities on purchasing, IT support, etc for them? As state funds have basically plateuaed/declined there has been this massive, mostly distracting invesment in these absurd things when we could just use blackboards and paper

One Battle After Another is good until it is almost entirely ruined by the last like 2-3 minutes

Brooklyn

Glad these universities are rejecting the compact. However the bar is so low and these presidents and trustees have had to deliberate about the response. And now that it’s open to everyone you can probably expect major unis, like Florida and Texas systems, to sign on soon…

One of my kids just told me I should start a Fast and Furious podcast called The Fast and the Freudian...

It’s almost like all the times people have pointed out the racism, sexism, fascism and Nazi sympathy of the Republican Party is because it’s a racist, sexist, fascist, Nazi sympathetic party!

always loved this from the acknowledgements to the great cultural historian Warren Susman's Culture and Commitment

here is the other tt job: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69272/u...

My department (History) is hiring two tenure track professors this year. here is one: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69273/u...

terrific essay from David "In other words, the university is now center stage in not just antiwar protest, as in the 1960s, or the culture wars, as it was during the early 1990s, but in politics itself."

It’s wild that there are people who are like “I’m scared my professor is anti-fascist”

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family. It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support. Thank you for your consideration.

laughable and absurd

Sick with worry over the ongoing detention of Alex Colston, journalist at @dropsitenews.com. I have known Alex for nearly a decade as a student, teacher, colleague, editor, publisher, and dear, dear friend. He and his comrades must be let free, now. Please read this, share, it and demand action.

Is there a “self-respecting university” when you approach it via pres/trustees? No

This is great - we should be trying to build new critical theory programs despite/in spite of the current situation

over the past few years I have been compiling the uses of "history of the present" for an article i don't and probably wil not have time to write. This one, from Timothy Garton Ash, made me laugh for a number of reasons - egotistical, inaccurate, self-deprecating but also self-centering

Lots of university presidents and trustees won’t fight the latest trump nonsense not because they are cowards but because they agree with him

unfortunately we already know what they are going to do

just spent an inordinate amount of time writing about incest in the 21st century and somehow missed that the OpenAI guy has been accused of incestuous abuse of his sister? Testament to both my questionable research methods and the endless amount of incest in US culture

By this logic you could get rid of almost all upper administration who serve neither undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, or staff and are much less valuable than a univeristy press

just completely absurd - no one more opposed to a functioning university than upper level admin

hard to remember there was a time when we could just enjoy things but anyway i watch this video a lot and like it (I also watch videos of pandas a lot) www.youtube.com/watch?v=44lL...

My latest review looks at a collection of essays on Thomas Mützer and the German Peasants' War from a special edition of History of the Present journal resolutereader.blogspot.com/2025/09/lore... @brianconnolly.bsky.social